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WRT killjulianassange.com, killassange.com and godaddy

[UPDATE 2011-01-13 12:30 CET Trying to get at the domain owner of killassnge.com via domainsbyproxy in seperate post]
[UPDATE 2011-01-12 18:20 CET: killassange.com seems to have no DNS entry ATM, therefore not resolving. Success?]
[UPDATE 2011-01-11 21:54 CET: killassange.com and killjulianassange.com both up and running, no reply from godaddy so far]
[UPDATE 2011-01-11 11:44 CET: Seems the domain julianassangemustdie.com has been deleted by its owner. See Godaddy WHOIS entry]
[UPDATE 2011-01-11 11:33 CET: Seems killjulianassange is down ATM. Could be simple change though.]
[UPDATE: I send an updated mail with the doamin julianassangemustdie.com added and clarified some aspects. New version reproduced here, old version archived in this same post.

I have just sent this mail to abuse@godaddy.com and urge you to do the same:

Dear Godaddy,

as instructed by your twitter account, I hereby request to check if the domain names registered by godaddy on behalf of your customers

* killassange.com
* killjulianassange.com
* julianassangemustdie.com

are in violation of your terms of use.

In my personal opinion they are in violation of your terms of use as stipulated at

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As we learned during the anti-war movement since 2001, Godaddy founder Bob Parsons is a frothing at the mouth advocate of a National Security state, and no friend of free speech or intelligent discourse. He was two thumbs up to torturing folks and monitoring American’s private data back then, and I assume he hasn’t changed. He’s likely proud and excited to be hosting a website about killing a whistleblower. It certainly suits his strategy of ginning up publicity by being an unashamed right wing moron. Just read his personal blog. Your plea will go unanswered.

They officially told me to use the abuse@godaddy.com email address for complaints. Seems to be the only official way. So IMHO calling them will not help. BTW – so far no reaction at all from their side. No ticket number, no “thank you, we got your mail” autoreply.

sent a copy of this mail to abuse@godaddy.com. included julianassangemustdie.com in the list. if they refuse to follow up on their tos, i will be looking for new registrar/website/email host for about 10 small domains. any suggestions?

Just read about these domains in Greg Mitchell’s blog and all I can say is that is shameful. If politicians can’t think what to do with themselves, why don’t they clean something, for instance? Or join some charity organizations? Or maybe read something? I suggest Orwell’s 1984, reading is much more useful than inciting murder, believe me.

as a medium with journalists published in print media as staff members of our online platform, we herewith request a press notification informing the public of your aims. we wish to get our question answered in this notification: do you back up calling for murder – a crime, even in your country?

Thank you for your inquiry. Although your question is not entirely clear, we can offer the following:

No, we do not support any call for violence of any kind. Of that you can be sure.

For background, you should know that Go Daddy registers a domain name every .8 seconds. Any domain name can be registered; the process is completely automated, there is no human intervention.

Importantly, unless and until there is content associated with a registered domain name, such as killjulianassange.com, there is no way for us to know what the domain name will be used for. Because there is no content associated with this particular domain name at the present time, and we cannot predict whether it will be used to violate any rule of law, and we therefore do not plan to take action at this time.

re: your answer to our request for a public statement. thank you for giving it, but our reply to it is still as visible here – http://wp.me/psdI6-XL – , please be so kind to pick it up there.

we’d understand any possible position claiming that it could as well be used for legal publications such as e.g. a sharp political satire, please be aware that under the given circumstances there are few reasons to either assume such a use or use such a hardly possible promille possibility for an explanation.

we found no anwer from you re. our inquiry for immediate reply (see below) in our mailbox. we interpret this as your open wish to be treated in the media as a company willing to contribute to a crime, “perhaps the single most serious criminal offense” (West’s encylopedia of American law).

incitement to murder is taking part in a murder, thus a crime that may “be sentenced to many years in prison, a prison sentence with no possibility of parole, or death”.

you can correct this with a prompt reply asap while our writers are writing their publications. if you hurry up, a correction sentence might land in a text. if you keep silent, this is your own choice then and please understand the public will have to know about the casse and to decide how to deal with it.

This IP address is static-54.ds1.hpcisp.com, owned by HPC Internet Services, an ISP in Indiana. I don’t see an email address for abuse complaints on their website, but support@hpcisp.com or (812) 275-2456 might work.

We also have several special-purpose accounts to direct various questions and comments such as abuse@, spam@, techsupport@, and so on. (The full list of addresses will not be printed on the web due to spam concerns.) ”

a) HPC reply just landed in box (more about this soon, waiting for action).

b) waiting for godaddy PR office reply.

c) goddaddy’s earlier reply forwarded to us claims: a) killassange.com not hosted by them, b) killjulianassange.com and julianassangemustdie.com are confirmed as hosted by godaddy. they claim they cannot undertake much action as long as there is no or not enough content on the page but propose legal action as a court proceeding re. wording of the addresses itself.

so let us reread this once again. godaddy has a problem with reading, is it this? a sentence is not a sentence anymore, recognizable as a criminal action and therefore satisfactory to check compliance with their T&C? well if a page hoster cannot recognize a crime as a crime anymore, what then to think about the company. sure legal action, but there might be in this case enough reason to go the court way re both: the registering person as well as the person who cannot read a sentence anymore although obviously answering emails in the same language.